Address guide for letters



Jan. 15 1924. 1,48%,938

' R. F. HALLA DAY UIDE FOR LETTERS Filed March 9, 1922 Patented Jan. 15,1924.

NITED STATESv PATENT OFFICE.

. RICHARD F. HALLAIDAY, OF NEWTON HIGHLANDS, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR 0FONE-HALF TO ARTHUR W. HARRISON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

ADDRESS GUIDE FOR LETTERS.

To all whom it may concm:

Be it known that I, RICHARD F. HALLA- DAY, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and resi dent of Newton Highlands, in the county of Middlesexand State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Address Guides for Letters, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to means for indicating the proper location foran address on a letter sheet when said sheet is to be so folded that theaddress will show through the window of an envelope when the foldedsheet is enclosed in such envelope.

There are now in very general use several types of envelopes savingso-called windows comprising transparent areas, or slots or cutoutportions over which transparent slips extend, the object being to avoidthe necessity of placing an address on'the envelope itself, this objectbeing attained by writing the full address on the letter sheet or othercommunication-bearing sheet and thenso folding the sheet that theaddress thereon can be read through the window when the folded sheet isenclosed in the envelope.

To attain the object mentioned it is essen tial that the address shallbe quite accurately located at a predetermined distance from the top (orbottom) and one side of the sheet; in other Words, in a predeterminedlocation relatively to a corner of the sheet. When a.

the sheet has lines to indicate the place for the address, as is quitecustomary with billheads, statements, and other commercial forms, thereis no difficulty in properly locating the address. Sheets such as thoseknown as letter-heads however rarely bear such lines and consequentlythere is nothing borne by the sheet to indicate to the typist or otherperson where the address should be placed. Considerable care must beexercised in selecting the area where the address is to be written onthe sheet, and the exercise of such care involves the expenditure of anappreciable amount of time. Even then the sheet sometimes has to befolded in an awkward way, or to be re-folded to cause the address toregister properly with the envelope window.

The object of the present invention is to provide an indicator which maybe used successively with letter sheets, one after another, to enable atypist or a pen-writer to instantly determine the proper location for anaddress 0 letter sheet which bears nov indicating lines.

With this object in view, my invention consists in a sheet of carbon orotherpaper' having an area thereof, or an outline, so contrasting withthe rest of the sheet that the location of said area or outline will beperceptible through a letter sheet superposed thereon and indicate wherethe address should be written on the letter sheet.

Of the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a perspective of a guide sheetillustrating one embodiment of my invention.

Figure 2 illustrates a similar sheet assembled with a letter sheet readyfor use.-

Figures 3 and 4 illustrate other guide sheets embodying my invention.

For convenience of description and not of limitation the carbon or otherindicatorbearing sheet will be referred to as the guide sheet todistinguish in a brief manner from the sheet on which a letter or othercommunication is to be typed or pen-written, the latter being referredto as a letter sheet. And it is to be understood that the letter sheetmay or may not have printed information concerning the sender, or may beany kind of a commercial form on which a communication is to be writtenor which is to be filled in.

carbon sheet is indicated at a, said sheet having an area b which willusually substantially correspond with the size and shape of the. windowof the envelope in which. the letter sheet is to be enclosed afterfolding. The area b is of a color quite sharply contrasting with thecolor of the sheet a. If the carbon sheet is purple or black the area bis of a brightocolor such as red or yellow. Or it may be white. Saidarea b is in such location of the sheet a that when a letter sheet a(Figure 2) is superposed thereon with one of its corners registeringwith a corner of the guide sheet a, the contrast ofcolor imparted by thearea b will be perceptible through the sheet 0. If the sheet a is coatedon one side to enable a carbon copy of the letter to he made, thecontrast-coloring material of the area b is borne by the other side (theback) of the sheet. This is the preferred embodiment of my invention.When the two sheets a and a are assembled with their upper left-handcorners registering in the manner customary when a letter is to be tor.For instance the sheet a may be white and the indicator area b black.

Instead of making the indicator area b as a solid field of contrastingcolor, it may consist of a plurality of stripes or an outline such asindicated at b in Figure 3. v

As it is quite customary to employ a carbon copying sheet with eitherend at the top of the letter sheet with which it is assembled for use,the guide sheet may have'two contrasting areas, one near each end. InFigure 4 I illustrate the sheet a as white with two darkaddress-indicating areas I) b, one near each end of the sheet. Saidfigure is intended to illustrate a blank white sheet for use be hind aletter sheet when no carbon copy is desired.

Whether the'gu'ide sheet is carbon-copying paper or not, the area orareas 6 may be printed or stamped thereon or may consist of thin tissuepaper having the desired color (or absence of color) and secured to thesheet a in proper location by suitable means, preferably a thin layer ofan adhesive which is. flexible when dry.

Preferably the guide sheet will correspond in size with that of theletter sheet-with which it is to be used, but it may be employedsuccessfully if it does not accurately correspond therewith.

o enable my invention to be utilized by persons who have on hand a stockof ordinary carbon copying paper and do not wish white paper cut andshaped to substantially" correspond with the size and shape of thewindows of window envelopes, .such slips carrying or being accompaniedby printed instructions as to how to combine them with sheets already instock. Such slips may carry suflicient dry adhesive which may bemoistened to enable the slips to be applied to the carrying sheetssimilarly to the use of gummed labels. I

Having now described my invention, I claim: n

1. A guide sheet for use behind a sheet on which a letter is to bewritten to be enclosed in a window envelope, said guide sheet having anaddress-location indicator of contrasting color in a limited positionrelatively to an upper left-hand corner thereof,-whereby the said sheet,when assembled with a let- 'ter sheet and with the upper left-handcorners of the two sheets in substantial registration, will indicate thecorrect location for an address on the letter sheet 'to enable saidaddress to be read through the window of a window envelope.

2. A sheet of carbon copying paper having on its back anaddress-location-indicator of contrasting color.

In testimony whereof I have afiixed my signature, in presence of twowitnesses.

- RICHARD F. HALLADAY.

Witnesses:

H. H. KITTREDGE, A. E. HARPER.

